Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

What a blessing it is to love books.

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.

I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies.

Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.

The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.

You’re the rose in a world full of thorns, and the rainbow at the end of a storm. You’re the light people crawl through darkness for. You’re the good that balances out all the bad.

I simply wish to continue to learn, & try to do what I have to do, better.

A gossip is one who talks to you about others a bore is one who talks to you about himself and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

You believe in a god that plays dice; I believe in law & order.

Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

You can choose to be a person who has resulted simply from what has happened, or from what you've chosen to be and do about what has happened.

It does not matter how many talents we have, what matters is how we use them.

Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.

I've always made some legendary comebacks since 1998 when it first started. So that's kind of just been my MO for my whole career.

I'm probably the most uncool guy that [my daughters] know-as far as they are concerned anyway-'cause I'm Dad. I mean dads just aren't cool-especially when I dance! They don't want me to dance.